MILITARY INFORMATION FROM DOEBERITZ-ALTES LAGER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000300230004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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21 January 1953
25X1 1,. On 30 December 1952, the signal unit under the comma d
of Lieutenant Colonel Konon (fnu) was quartered in buildings Nos 1 and 2 and
in the former Gar-:western inn (building No 52) In the ltes Lager, foeberitzo
25X1 the forr?er ration supoly depot which stored a niunition9accom-
rianied by audit officer 'rajor Dubinka (fnua), The depot was surrounded by a
barbed -ire fence, a bcc rd fence and was equip e d with four watch towers and
searchlights. The depot was guarded by troops wearing red-bordered black 25X1
epaulets with artillery i-!.si nia. They were quartered in as r h bunker.
Major Dubinka said that he was chief of the depot. e low wooden 25X1
buildings Nos 54 and 55, which formerly housed a hospital, were also surrounded 25X1
by :-arhed wire fence, a boy rd fence and by searchlights, and were guarded
by soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets with artillery insignia.
25X1 : a.jor Dubinka was not in thane of these buildings. Three T 3 /85s
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25X1 silhouettes of tanks, termi er o rucks were seen
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through the open doors of garages 1 25X1
2. 1 effective 1 December, Major Zurkin (fnu) t.ould sign for
Taranov fnu the ait officer in the Loewen Kaserne.1
3. On 29 lecember, five prime movers occupied by oersornel wearing red: bordered
black epaulets with artillery insignia and each towing a 100-mm 'T gun were
seen in front of the gun sheds of the unit with audit officer Boshko (fnu).
The drivers of the vehicles received orders from 'ia,or Loshko (fnu), who was
known as belonging to Unit Boshko.
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25X1 4, On 29 December, o get bills receinted for the signal offices in
Paaren, T ichataec t and Nauen, which had discontinued operation The head- 25X1
quarters an Karl Marx Stras9e, Bernau which had previously been spa'erior to
these agencies, was no longer there. o the barracks installa- 25X1
tion in Wuensdorf, which had its main guard house on Koch Strasse.
met Lieutenant Karyevski (fnu), who recei-tect the bills
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-1-C ent The signal unit mentioned probably ss the
:unidentified si, rsal battalion of the 1st flee. Div with the
known Lieutenant Colonel Konon or Konov. 25X1
The tanks observed. in Neues Lag
er probably belong to the uni. enti-
tied tank training battalion of the above ?Mentioned division sta-
tioned in Apes Eager or Neues Lager. 25X1
The Ncuess Lager is primarily used fora,. ering vei c es (i units
stationed in Altea Lager. Except for arannov, all the officers
rentioned are known. For key to numbered buildings, see annex.
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Coirmento The officers mentioned in paragraph 3 of the nre--
eport were )reviously reported from Cranienbu g as belonging
to the 2d. Light Arty Brig (US), which,' since the fal,1 '. `? C
ted in Olymoisches Dorf, Doeberitz. 25X1
Comment. The deactivation of the clivna a s previously
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tion with a headquarters in t on ars Marx Strasse,
L . rnau, tends to ifd..icate that these signal offices Were telephone
centrals of an #11 headquarters, which, nos d bly, has bean trans-
ferred to Wuenadorf. . Lieutenant Karyevski is known as administrative
officer of this headquarters,
ATTACH MTS.- Plan. of Doebaeri.tz Altes and Neuet, Lager; Legend
for plan (3 pager ; (Army 10, Air 6, CCI 25
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